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With the Court Office having recently published their ninth quarterly 'Price Paid Data' it is now quite clear that the Alderney residential market has settled down after the significant price corrections of 2012 – 2014; although the average house price is still perceptibly falling, the graph shows... Read more

Published on 09 May 2016

The downwards trend in the Alderney average house price continued in 2015 but at 1.9% year on year this was at a much slower rate than in previous years (20.9% in 2014 and 27.3% in 2013); the price correction seen in the period 2012 - 2015 appears to be approaching a ‘glass floor’ and I do not expect... Read more

Published on 28 March 2016

We showed in an earlier post that our sales: listing percentage is nearly three times better than the opposition's by virtue of their much larger sales list. But how did we do on other measures of performance in 2014? (We have only included conventional residential sales in the statistics below and... Read more

Published on 12 January 2015

The rule of thumb is that a seller’s market is where more than 50% of the property on offer in any given period is sold. Less than 50% constitutes a buyer’s market. In some UK hot spots, on this measure at least, peak sales hit as much as 75% during 2014 – hence the spectacular headline price increases... Read more

Published on 06 January 2015

In a residential property market as small and quirky as Alderney's, there are real difficulties in producing any sort of authoritative analysis. This health warning aside though, it is important for sellers and buyers alike that some sort of sense is made from the transactional data now available... Read more